I decided to take the plunge and finally get a Linux distro, I was originally aiming for Ubuntu, until I found porteus! I am running the 64 bit version off of a 4 GB USB flash drive.

My question is, how do I install java correctly? What i did so far was download the 64 bit Linux version, click the is exe. button under properties, right click and select install Slackware package. It says installed, but I am not sure if it really did.

Another question, How do I run minecraft? I heard I just have to select open with java?

(please note this is my first time with Linux...)
Thanks for your help!

Last edited by Hardstriker on 27 Dec 2013, 03:46, edited 1 time in total.

Minecraft is available under alien slackware. I never used it. You have to transform the txz slackware packages into xzm porteus packages which is pretty easy. However you need the good slackware version which depends on the porteus version you are using.

Download the txz package and with a right click of the mouse, selecting the right submenu item, transform it into a xzm module. Be patient proportionally to the power of your computer. Porteus will tell you the module is ready.

There seem to be only one dependency for minecraft, called openal, as can be concluded by opening the minecraft-latest-noarch-2alien.dep file. You can download that dependency from PPM.

Make sure that your three modules are in the /porteus/modules folder so that they will activate automatically at next bootup. You can activate them right away by right clicking them and selecting the appropriate menu. Minecraft should be available in the menu under internet or games category. If not open terminal and try minecraft.

Good luck. Let us know how it goes.

Note: normally you should open one thread by topic, one for java and one for minecraft, unless they are related.

Thanks! So far it looks good, All I have to do now is restart so the packages are activated! Running porteus KDE 2.1 PC specs are fx-6120, radeon 7870, 8 gb of kingston ram, ga-970a-d3p mobo. I could get into all the details of case and stuff, but This thread is java and minecraft. Thanks again for your help!

Well I have one problem with minecraft, (renamed to minecraft because this thread is turning into minecraft stuff.) I added it to my favorites menu. When I click on it, it just displays the bouncing block and never opens. Other programs like gimp work fine. I have the openal installed too, so that can't be the problem. Any thing you can think of that might be the problem?